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The Price of Glory : Verdun 1916
by Horne, Alistair
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1962. November Reprint of the October 1962 First Edition. Red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. pp.xi, 372 includes Bibliography & Index. B/w Plates, Cartoons, Maps & Plans. Moderate shelfwear to spine ends. Original pencil pricing to top corner of Ffep. Partial gutter crack to top end of front hinge (55mm) binding still solid and intact. Light foxing to top and fore edges of closed pages. Priceclipped DJ quite worn with sunned spine. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Price of Glory : Verdun 1916
- Author
- Horne, Alistair
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- History First World War Battle of Verdun
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- History - General;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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